The Sun. — London, England, 1838-02-20 00:00:00

LONDON : TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 20, 1838. In the House of Loans, last night, the Parliamentary Electors' Bill, and several other Bills were advanced a stage. The only other business transacted consisted in the presenta tion of petitions for the abolition of Negro Apprenticeship, relief from Church Rates, in favour of the Ballot, and also of a National System of Education. A petition was also pre sented by the Earl of ABERDEEN from Edinburgh, praying that means may be taken to extend Religious Instruction in Scotland. In the House of COMMONS Lord BRABAZON took the oaths and his seat fur the county of Dublin. New writs were or dered for West Kent in the room of Sir WILLIAM GEARY, who has accepted the Chi:tern Hundreds; and for Portsmouth, in the ro•m of Mr. CARTER, deceased. The Notting-hill Footway Bill, after some discussion, was read a second time and ordered to be committed. The send ing the Bill into Committee was opposed by Mr. G. HOPE alone. After the presentation of a great many petitions, most of them having far their object the improvement of our defective legislation and political system, Lord JOHN RUSSELL stated what he proposed should be the course of the public business. The third reading of the Parliamentary Electors' and Free mens' Bill, was carried by a small majority of 17-189 Mem bers voting for, and 172 against it. For the discussion, which is interesting and important, we refer the reader to our Par limentary report. Sir ROBERT PEEL and his party, of course, opposed the 13111. Any measure promotive of the free and fair representation of the people, being in its nature and ten dencies destructive to Tory ends and aims, will always meet with the opposition of that most odious and eminently selfish faction. The remainder of the sitting was occupied with a considera tion of sumo of the clauses of the Irish Poor-law all, in which measure considerable progress was made. The House ad journed at half-past twelve o'clock. The Poor-law for Ireland Bill, advanced seine clauses in Committee, last night, after an unsuccessful attempt by Mr. SHAW, C)lanel CONOLLY, and Mr. O'CON NELL, to foist in a clause restricting the relief under the Bill, to the lame, impotent, old, blind, and such as are una ble to walk. Had this clause been adopted, the Bill would not have been worth the acceptance of the people of Ire land. The Hon. and Learned Member for Dublin, in sup porting the amendment, ridiculed the idea of increasing capital in Ireland, by abstracting a large sum from the fund now devoted to the payment of wages ; and yet the want of capital was confessedly the greatest evil that Ire land laboured under. We should be glad to hear an ex position of any plan by which Mr. O'CONNELL would pro pose to increase Irish capital without a Poor-law. Why is there a paucity of capital in Ireland, blessed as she is with the best soil, and some of the finest harbours, and other natural advantages, to be found in the United King dom ? Because there is at present no security for capital in the sister country. And how does this happen ? Because her landlords are irresponsible for their oppression of their tenants, and these tenants have no resource in famine but starve, unless they have recourse to acts' of outrage. In guaranteeing the impossibility of d3ing of hunger, a Poor law will do more to tranquilize Ireland—to protect life and property—than would a military force of 40,000 men. This legal protection of life in Ireland—for such is the real principle of the Poor-law Bill—must precede the influx of that capital which Mr. O'CONNELL deems all-sufficient to render Ireland as productive as England. There is no system of police so efficacious for the preservation of the internal tranquillity of any country as that of a well-administered Poor-law. Besides, Mr. O'CoN NELL makes a gross blunder when he says that poor-rates in Ireland will abstract a sum equal to their full amount, or even to one-fifth of the amount, from the wages of a labour fund. He must know well that under the Bill one moiety of the rates must be paid by the landlords, of whom, according to himself, the majority are non-resi dent, and not one in ten ever contribute a farthing to a la bour fund. Should the landlords be so short-sighted as to try to shift the burthens of the rates from their own shoulders to those of their tenants, the oppressive policy will speedily work its own cure. A brief experience of the operation of a good Poor-law will teach the landed Aristocracy of Ire land an useful lesson—of which they are at present in the greatest want—namely, that properly understood the real interests of a landlord are identified with the social and moral happiness of his tenantry. A party division took place last night in the House of Commons on the third reading of the Parliamentary Elec tors Bill, which was carried by a majority of only 17. Seventeen therefore in a House of 351, or about 32 in the whole House, is the extent of the Ministerial majority. At present, too, not many of the election petitions have been decided, which may possibly, though we hope not, judging from the decisions already given, make that poor majority still poorer. It is under such difficult circum stances that the Ministers have chosen, by their proceed ings in relation to the Ballot, to convince all their friends in the country, that it is of no importance to support them. Two new writs were last night moved for, and the zeal of their friends at Portsmouth, and in Kent, will scarcely be warmed into a contest by the vote of Thursday evening. Certainly in the latter the dependent freeholders, the multitude of small land-owners, who are from a variety of causes at the mercy of the conspiring par sons and the combining squires, and who are anxious to escape from this thraldom, by the instrumentality of the Ballot, will not care to support the Ministers, since they cannot obtain by that the dearest object of their wishes. Sir EDMUND FILMER will, we are afraid, walk over the course in Kent, giving all the moral strength of unanimity to the opponents of Ministers. Nor is it likely, we apprehend, that the vote of Thursday night will secure the election (in the room of Mr. BoNHAm CARTER) of one of the Ministers' friends for Portsmouth. The pros- pect which such a relaxation of zeal throughout the country gives, in case of a general election, there being nothing in their conduct as to Church-rates, or Church Reform, or additional endowments for the Church of Scot land, to counteract their fatal conduct as to the Ballot, must be appalling for them, and triumphant for the Tories. We should think and say less on this sub ject, interesting as it is to the public, were we not thoroughly convinced that the Ministers, by following the course we indicated, might have preserved their consistency, and might have been quite sure that the Ballot would not have been carried, and might have strengthened their party in the country by not opposing it, and by leaving it• (if needs must) to be rejected by the Lords. Then the Mi nisters would have gone to the country with the strongest possible recommendation to the constituency, while now they will scarcely be distinguished, except by the hopes they have deceived from the Tories, who will be sure, in almost all contested elections, to defeat the Whigs. Our advice and our opinion was, that Ministers should have waived their own personal opinions, and have sided with the bulk of their supporters. At auy rate, they ought not to have made opposition to the Ballot a Cabinet measure. For it was, in our opinion, as dishonourable in them to use the influence of office, conferred on them by the votes of Re formers, to thwart the wish for Reform, as the Times of this morning says, it is dishonourable in a subaltern office holder to vote against the Cabinet under which he serves. What dishonour would it have been to Lord JOHN RuSSELL—what inconsistency would it have displayed— if he had stood up on Thursday night, and spoken to the following effect, and made that the rule of the conduct of the Cabinet : " I have already informed the House that I do not be lieve in the virtue of the Ballot, as pourtrayed in such charming colours by the Member for London. It will in my opinion neither prevent the influence of property, which I think ought to be preserved, nor the influence of the non electors, whom I do not wish to exasperate by wholly shutting out from all power iu the Constitution ; it will, I believe, supply a certain means for safely bribing small con stituencies, and is scarcely required in the large towns. It will encourage moral feebleness and want of self-reliance, while every person should be prepared to avow his poltical senti ments, and be ready atall times to defend them. None of my objections to the mode of taking rotes in secret have been removed by any thing I have heard or read ; but as I can not avoid recognizing the existence of much and most un• seemly intimidation under the present system, which makes the votes not the free suffrages of the electors, but the suffrages of those who intimidate them, and which falsi fying the expression of the sentiments of the electors, makes the House not the genuine and true representative of public opinion, which it ought and is intended to be ; as I have not devised any remedy, nor heard any one devised, for these great evils; as I am assured that the Ballot will remedy them; as the great body of the electors require it ; and as all my friends and supporters here and in the country wish to have it tried ; as it violates no constitutional principle, being a mere mechanical mode of taking votes ; as it deprives no man of liberty and no man of property ; as it takes away no man's franchise, and does violence to no man's feelings, I, for one, Sir, shall waive my own well-formed opinions, and will not oppose by the influence of the Government the motion of the Hon. Member. I shall record my own vote indeed against it, but I will use no other means ; and I will urge no argument to defeat the wishes of the supporters and friends of the Ministry, of which I have the honour to form a part," Such a proceeding would have done honour to Lord JOHN Russzu, ; would have preserved his consistency and would have stren3thened the Ministry in the coun try. Giving free permission to all their friends, in cluding Sir JOHN HOBHOUSE and Mr. POULETT THOMSON, to vote for the motion, would scarcely have carried it in the House of Commons, and it would certainly have been thrown out by the Lords had it ever reached that House. The Ministers might have served the interests of their party, secure that the Ballot would not have become law. To have treated it with indifference, too, would have begotten a corresponding indifference, per haps, in the advocates of the Ballot. By their determined opposition, on the ground that it was the key to other re forms, they have only strengthened that desire to obtain it rhieli ere long 'will destroy the Ministry. But we hear s)me person saying, " What! would you have Ministers hold office on condition of not carrying their own policy and opinions into effect ?" Is not that, we ask, what they now do ? Will the Tory Peers permit them to act on their own opinions? Where, then, are their promised Irish Muni cipal and Church-rate abolition measures,? They are ac tually now without the power to give effect to their own opi nions. They defer to the Lords, but think it a disgrace to de fer to the electors. They seem to have forgotten their own Reform Act. Before that was passed, the Minister of the day made his arrangements with the Peers, who settled the votes of the Commons. The Reform Act has transferredthe power from the Peers to the electors; but the Ministers, unable to get out of the old track, still defer to the Peers and thwart the electors. They cannot abide the principle that they are, as Ministers, the creatures of the people. They adopt the theory in words, but their pride will not allow them to act on it. They insist on being the master of their mas ters. They think it dishonourable to defer to the wishes of their own party in the Commons, while they submit do the work of the Tory Lords. They take a false view of their position, and the course we have chalked out, which they may yet have an opportunity of following, would be the true recognition of that dependence on the electors on which tPte Reform Act has placed the Ministry. The question of the " Danish Claims" comes on to night in the House of Commons, on the motion of Mr. CRESSWELL, and will, we trust, be set at rest for ever. It is really most discreditable to the national character that a claim, which is so based on justice that, if the parties concerned were private individuals, all opposition to it in a Court of Equity would be utterly hopeless, should have been so long resisted by the Government. The merits of the question lie in a nutshell. The unforeseen, and we may add, unprecedented, aggression made upon Denmark by Great Britain in 1807, by which the capital of that country was bombarded, her fleet carried off, her naval arsenal plundered, and her ships in our ports seized, natu rally led to measures of retaliation. The Danes took pos session of all the British property within their reach, which they :confiscated. Now can anything he more clear to common sense, or more conformable to justice thee that the British subjects who suffered this confiscatio❑ of their property, through the conduct of the British Govern.. ;Tent in attacking a power, against which we had not only not declared war, but with which we were carrying on all the relations of amity, should have been compensated for their losses out of the proceeds of the Danish property, seized and sold by ordet of that Government ? It cannot be alleged that. the funds thus arising were inadequate : they amounted to four times the sum required to liquidate the whole of the claims, and were is fact set apart for that express purpose nearly thirty years ago. The money, however, was devoted to other purposes—in other words, was spent by a needy Government ; and in order to evade the payment of a just debt, he mean subterfug e was adopted of dividing the claims into various classes accor ding to a supposed scale of validity. One class included book debts—another goods and cargoes seized on shore— a third ships and cargoes seized in the ports and close seas of Denmark. Now we should like to hear the argument by which it is attempted to prove that there is the lea s t difference, in nature or in strength, between these classes of claims. There is obviously none whateeer—yet the first and second have been allowed and liquidated, while the third, amounting to the paltry sum of L 50,0001., has been—if not rejected—delayed and higgled about, and shuffled off to the present moment. This is truly pitiful. One of the main objections to the Ballot put forth by Lord JOHN RUSSELL in his late unfortunate speech on that question was, that it was necessarily connected with, and would lead to, other changes of an organic nature, namely, an extension of the Suffrage, and the shortening of Parliaments. The Noble Lord neither attempted to prove this connection, nor to show how the changes which appear to him so formidable would, of necessity, follow the adop tion of secret voting. To us the questions appear to be perfectly distinct, and to have no other relation to one another than that which is common to all measures having the extension of liberty for their object. The spirit of freedom is expansive and self -propagating ; every advance, therefore, which it makes enables it to make others ; and ip this view the Ballot may be said to be the forerunner of the changes to which we have alluded ; but the ame observation, be it remembered, ap plies to every measure of a liberal tendency which Lord JOHN Ityssru. and his colleagues have sanctioned with their approbation. If, however, the Noble Lord imagines, that, by setting their faces so determinedly against the Ballot, the Government will prevent or even retard those alterations in our representative system, the necessity of which is demonstrated by the experience of every passing day, he will, we apprehend, find that ho has committed a grievous error. The advocates of the Ballot, having now nothing to hope, but every thing to fear, from Ministerial interference, will be compelled to fall back for assistance upon the non-electors, who have hitherto kept aloof from them, because their interests were not sufficiently con sulted in the proposed reform. The great mass of the working population will thus be brought into the field of action, and no doubt can be entertained by any reflecting person, that if a judicious—that is to say, a peaceable but resolute—course of agitation be pursued, such a " pressure from without" will be created as will crush the ribs of the strongest Government that ever was formed. This, it appears to us, will be the inevitable consequence of the opposition given by Ministers to the Ballot—an op position which, the more we reflect upon it, the more un wise, not to say infatuated, does it seem. We can make allowance for the reluctance of individual Members of the Cabinet to sacrifice their opinions, however erroneous we think them, upon this question ; and therefore we might have forgiven the Government for not at once making it Cabinet measure ; but we are utterly at a loss to find any apology or excuse for its not being made an " open ques tion." Precedents were not wanting for following this course. On the great measure of Catholic Emancipation the Members of the Liverpool Cabinet were left at perfect liberty to vote as they pleased ; and :they actually did vote on different sides. This was a degree of liberality, though in a Tory Administration, well worthy of imitation by the MELsouRNIE Government. Had it been imitated on this occasion there would not have been that alienation of the Reformers from the Ministry, for which Lord JOHN RUSSELL may, perhaps, discover, when it is too late, that a pat on the back from Sir ROBERT PEEL is but a poor compensation. The great Meeting of SOO persons at the Freema sons' Tavern yesterday, of which we published an ample report in our Second Edition, seems to have had a great charm for two of cur Morning Contemporaries. The Herald cannot crowd the proceedings into less than four columns and a half, or only one co!umn less than it gives to all the debates in both Houses of Parliament. The Times far out-does the Herald, and swells the discussion of which Messrs. WALTER, OAiTLER, FIELDEN and MURPHY are the heroes, into eleven columns. What our two Conservative Contem poraries mean by thus giving great importance to such a wretched meeting, at which the most virulent per sonalities were, combined with a demand for Universal Suffrage, and the most outrageous denunciations were made against the laws and those in authority, probably their readers will call on them to explain. Nothing, how ever, it is now plain, is too gross or too bad for the Tory journals which seems for the moment to serve their factious purposes. Hence, we find one of them making war day after day on capitalists ; in another, giving point and power to the speeches of those who recom mend the destruction of property, and hint at treacherous massacre as a means of obtaining the repeal of a law. Till we witnessed the conduct of the Times and the Herald, we could not suppose that disappointed personal feelings and party spite, could ever drive any journals to act so com pletely in opposition to their own political principles, and to the moral feelings of the public. Sir ROBERT PEEL was loudly cheered by those opposed to the Ballot when he expressed his conviction that no Ballot-box could be made which would ensure secrecy, or prevent a suspicion that it had been tampered with. " I greatly distrust the secrecy of the Ballot-box," said the Right Hon. Baronet ; " and I have that confidence in the ingenuity, the character, and the skill of the people of this country, to believe that no Ballot-box that could be de vised, in whose ever hands entrusted, would prove an effectual guarantee against their curiosity:' 01 all the sophistry poured forth on the occasion this is certainly the most remarkable. We believe not the slightest doubt re mains in the minds of those who have turned their atten tion to the subject, that a box may be mado which shall ensure perfect secrecy—no one during the course of the debate, with this exception, denied the fact--and the cheering which followed the assertion must, there fore, be attributed to that inherent quality of human nature which leads the washed, as well as the unwashed multitude, to assent to every word that falls from a loader. But even admitting that fraudulent ingenuity m ight oc casionally evade the law, is that any argumen t against the Ballet ? We might as well argue against the use of a lock or a seal, because a thief could pick the one, or a forger counterfeit the other. The same argument too would apply against the present mode for securing a cor rect return of votes at elections. By the 65th section of the Reform Act, it is enacted that at the close of the poll, the poll-books shall be delivered, enclosed and sealed, to the returning officer or his deputy, who shall keep them un opened until the re-assembling of the Court. What is the use of keeping them closed and sealed but to prevent fraud —and can it be denied that if " lavish bribery" could make an individual tamper with the Ballot-box, the same means would not make him tamper with the seal ? Perfect security is unattainable. We must therefore be satisfied with the nearest approach to it. The large minority on the division holds out vast encouragement to the friends of the Ballot ; but we confess that is trifling when compared with the arguments—and this is a fair specimen—used against it by all th, speakers in the debate, because the public will in time see that they are without foundation —that the real cause of opposition arises from an unwillingness on the part of the Aristocracy to allow the people the free exercise of the franchise, and that Is ithout the Ballot they cannot enjoy the full fruits of the Reform Bill. yaw By the packet-ship Hibernia, which arrived at Liver pool yesteray, we have received New York Papers to the 29th ult. inclusive—five days later than the last arrivals. They contain various rumours from the frontier, to the effect that a remnant of the Navy Island rebels had reached the Island of Bois Blanc in Lake Erie, where, after robbing th e t own of Detroit, they es t a bli s hed their head-quarters. Hither they were promptly pursued by the Loyalists, who di spersed them i n a ll directions, after taking possession of a schooner, three pieces of can non, and four hundred stand of arms. Several of the leaders were made prisoners, and n MACKENZIE succee d e d i n making his escape. w cape a . s Inbutillthepe rusal of the annexed extracts, great allowance should be made for that love of exaggeration so characteristic of the Americin Newspaper Press. The affair of the Caroline continues to excite lively interest on the frontier. Mr. WELLS, the Proprietor, asserts that she was never "bought, chartered, hired, or bonded, in any manner whatever," by the Navy Islanders—that she was started to run as a ferry-boat —had her regular papers—and carried no flag but the flag of the United States; nor had she any other on board when destroyed. This may be all true, or it may not, and the latter is the more credible ; but whether true or false, it will not now affect our friendly relations with the United States Government. If we have violated the territory, or unwittingly offered an indignity to the United States' flag, there is not a British subject, worthy of the name, whose voice will be raised against our making the Federal Go vernment ample reparation • ' (From the Daily Erpress, Jan. .25.) THE IMPORTANT NEWS FROM MICHIGAN. " DETROIT, J AN. 7, 1838. " Our city is at present in an unprecedented excitement. Are. 9, of the U n it e d g f a o d r ie a r-G ge en at e d ral of ß m ra ce l o to protect the Arsenal at Dearbonville, 10 miles up the river Roug e , and the powder s w i l a i t s e it s io a n nn ha y s , übpeeenn the e ad G e y magazine in this city. ' Night before last, the patri o t s seised upon a o b vern ß o r r i srnall schooner at our wharfs, stole 300 stand of arms that had been put in the jail for safe keeping, and embarked in open daylight yester day morning, with some 300 men, down the river, to possess themselves of a small island nearly opposite Fort Malden—the island belongs to the English. Our Deputy-Marshal and 30 men went in pursuit, but were ordered not to approach the patriot vessel. They returned to the city last evening. The Governor has ordered out 200 men, and sent to Dearbonville for cannon and small arms to go in pursuit of these patriots, to compel them at least to leave our waters. 300 stand of arms were stolen at Monroe a few nights since. " All these circumstances have thrown our city into the greatest excitement. A meeting of the citizens was called yesterday, and vo lunteers raised to preserve our neutrality and protect our property, I. e. to shut the stable door after the horse is stolen. " The Patriots arc receiving voluntetrs from all parts of our State. Even the interior is sending in its quota. There is no doubt that they will muster at least five hundred men on Fighting Island to-morrow. The Canadians !me, to r.pposethi.se, four hundred and fifty drafted mi. litia and two companies nf volunteer negrocs. There will Lea battle in a day or two. " The Patriots, it is said, are commanded by one General Sutherland, a brother of Judge Sutherland, of your State, I believe. (From the Albany Argvs.) FROU THE WEST.—The Buffalo Papers are of Thursday last. The Slar of that date says A rumour very much like the truth has reached• this city, that offi cial news has been received by Colonel M'Nab that Duncombe had taken Malden, and other towns on the Western frontier of Canada, and wasmaking rapid progress, with nearly two thousand men, well armed If . this be true, which we have very little reason to doubt, the scat of war will soon return to the Niagara illgontter. M`Nab will only have got rid of Van Rensselaer for a season, to be met by both Duncombe and Van Rensselaer in such a position that he will be obliged to fight or run. And to balance these accounts is another by an express at Kingston, from the London district, signed by John B. Askin, stating that a de tachment of Royalist boats had succeeded in capturing, after a short engagement, near Malden, a schooner with 400 stand of arms, 3 pieces of cannon, and an abundance of ammunition on board ; the number of men not mentioned, but it is stated that the schooner lost I killed, 8 wounded, and 12 prisoners. (From the Kingston (Upper Canada) Herald, Jan. 15.) The Traveller brings the accounts of a gallant action at Amherst. burgh. A gang of pirates robbed the arsenal at Detroit, loaded a schooner with the spoils, and sailed to Amherstburgh, and fired on the town. The inhabitants had no arms, but they collected in the night, armed with pitchforks and whatever came to hand. They then at.. tacked and captured the schooner, killing one man and taking 12 pri soners, with 300 stand of arms, three cannon, and a large supply of the munitions of war. Thus in every quarter defeat and ruin wait on the rebels and pirates. (From the Hamilton (Upper Canada) Gazette.) JAN. 10, Six A al.—Lieutenant Wright arrived by express, bringing the satisfactory intelligence of the capture of a rebel schooner, without the loss of a man on our side, with three pieces of cannon and 30 pri soners; among the number a Dr. Theller, of notorious memory. The number of rebels killed not ascertained. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO.MORROW. Mowing ...... 32 minutes after 111 Evening 0 minutes after 0 Patronized by the most distinguished Reformers. Now ready, Parts I. to 111., at 3s. each, the small Edition ; and 7s. 6d. each, the splendid large Folio Edition, with thick Proof Plates, SAUNDERS' PORTRAITS AND ME MOMS OF EMINENT POLITICAL REFORMERS. 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Colonel Foster assumes the command of the forces and the militia. (From the Detroit Morning Post, Jan. 8.), MOVEMENT, IN Tills QUARTER.—Operations which have been secretly going on for months pest have now come to a point. The Patriots have taken Bois Blanc Island, near the mouth of the Detroit river, and are now about 300 strong. They have several pieces of cannon, muskets for 2,000, and abundance of powder, shot, balls, provisions, kc. They have had men there, it appears, for several weeks fortifying the place, and it will be entirely impossible to dislodge them— volunteers are pouring from every quarter daily, and in a week from to day they will, unquestionably, have an army of 1,000 men. (From the National Intelligencer.) DETROIT, JA N. 12.—The capture of the Patriot schooners and stores by the Canadians disconcerted all the plans of the invading army. They immediately retired from Bois Blanc to the American island. Dis sensions arose among them, and some of the officers withdrew from the service. The extreme cold weather produced much suffering. Con fidence was gone in the commanders, and the force has finally dis. banded. (From the St. John Observer of the I Oth inst.) " Her Blajesty's ship Cornwallis, of 74 guns, Captain Sir Richard Grant, arrived at Partridge Island, at the entrance of this harbour, be tween eleven and twelve o'clock. She has brought the remainder of the 34th Regiment, consistiug of about 250 men, under the command of Major Buxton, and three companies of the 65th Regiment, about 200 m en, under the command of Major Walker. The 34th were brought up to the city on Sunday by the stez mer Nova Scotia ; and this morn ing the same boat went down and brought up the 65th. The 34th com mence their march by companies to-morrow morning from this garri. son for Quebec. The 65th will remain here until next Monday, when two companies will proceed for Fredericktown : for the present about 50 men, with a captain and two subalterns, will remain in this garrison. The 03d Highlanders, we learn, may be daily expected here, on their route to Canada. The Money.market Report, of the 27th ult., states that " the ge. neral dullness and depression in money matters vas never more se verely felt than now. Treasury notes are still at par; Fire per Cents. arc 1001 to 101; Six per Cents. quoted at 1011 to 102; United States Bank Shares, 1181 to 1181." The New York Morning Herald of the 28th ult , contains an rte. count of the discovery at New York of a great bank forgery. It states that about 370,000 dols. forged notes of the Kentucky Bank were ready for emission when the discovery was made. The same paper states that there was nothing new or of any interest from Buffalo or Detroit. The Liverpool pzekets of the 16th of January had arrived at New York ; also the Philadelphia, from London. The Paris Papers of Sunday have been received this morning. In the official columns of the Chartc of Satur day night we find the following telegraphic despatch from the Spanish frontier : " BAYONNE, Feb. 15.—Espartero returned to Logrono on the Bth, and on the 10th advanced as far as Lodosa. fle ap pears to intend attacking Estella. "Don Carlos arrived on the 12th at Tolosa, on his way to Estella. Seven battalions preceded him, and went to join the Navarrese troops in the Solano. " Narvaez, on his arrival at Jaen, assumed the command of all the troops against Basilic)." The proceedings in the Chambers on Saturday were un important. The Minister of Finance brought in a Bill for paying the interest on the French portion of the Greek Loan. A. petition praying that chaplains might be at tached to regiments serving in Africa gave rise to an in , teresting debate, in the course of which it was shown that the irreligion of the soldiery had greatly contributed to prevent a good understanding with the Arabs. The prayer of the petition was subsequently referred to the considera tion of the War Minister. It appears that our Government has thought it neces sary to demand explanations relative to the conduct of cer tain French officers who had proposed to their countrymen a campaign in Canada. According to the Journals, the explanations must prove highly satisfactory to Great Britain, as France will not suffer her citizens to violate our neutrality. This is no more than England has an un doubted right to expect from that " best of Republics"— the Monarchy of July. THE DANISH CLAIMS. Mr. Cresswell is this evening to bring forward " the prayer of the petitioners for relief against losses sustained by the seizure of their ships and cargoes by the Danes in 1807." The claim is a,;.ist and prop er claim, and it is our hope and trust that their advocate will succeed in persuading the House of Com mons to agree to their demands. In 1807, at a time of pro found peac e , an d w h en an A m b assa d or f rom D enmar k was re siding in London, the British attacked Copenhagen, and simultaneously they seized upon nearly 300 vessels belonging to that nation, which were lying in the Thames. They were all sold, as well as every other species of Danish property thus captured, for thy avowed purpose of indemnifying British subjects for losses which they might sustain in Denmark. The amount thus realized, and paid into the British Treasury, was about one million and a-half sterling. From this sum the different claimants hare, during a period of thirty years, only been enabled to procure the paltry sum of 200,0001., the princip a l an d i nterest h av i ng b een improper l y ma d e away with by former Lords of the Treasury.—Advertiser. The ease of the third class of British claimants on Den mark is to be brought on in thel House of Commons this evening. This class comprehends the claims of the own ers of ships with their cargoes, which were confiscated in the ports and close seas of Denmark, simultaneously with British moveable property. The claims for book debts, and for goods and cargoes seized on shore, have been already liquidated, but opposition is made to this class of claims on some imagined difference between the confiscation of property on shore and of property afloat. This is a sophistry which has been so often exposed that it seems useless to go over the same ground again, since the true cause of refusal must be the unwillingness or inability to pay the money, against which of course argument is useless. It is impossible to plead, however, the actual want of funds, as a sum of 1,200,0001. was reserved so long back as 1810 to meet these Danish claims, and separated entirely from the " Droits of the Ad miralty." The claims of this class now in dispute amount to about 150,000/. Times. Mr. Gillon paired off with Lord Jerinyn, in favour of the Parliamentary Election Bill. THE MEETING AT THE FREEMASON'S TAVERN. ---A writer of a letter to the Morning Chronicle, says a Mr. Vi nc ent, a working man, at this meeting, exposed the conduct of the concoctors of the meeting, whom he designated as the pretended friends of the working classes • and (alluding to Mr. Walter, of the Ti mes news p a p er, who after considerable op position, was allowed for a short time to address the meeting) he stated that in the morning he wrote down the working classes, and in the evening came to a public meeting to s mpathise with them. This statement was responded to by loYud cheers ; and such was its effect, that on Mr. Walter's at tempting towards the close of the meeting to address it, he was assailed on all sides with " Renegade Whig," " Proprietor of the base and b—y Times, &c., and was compelled evidently to his great mortification, to sit down and hold his tongue; but I a m afraid poor Mr. Vincent and the working classes will suffer for their temerity. SIR JAMES GRAHAM.--It is rumoured that Sir James Graham is to be brought iato Parliament for the borough of Pembroke; for which purpose Mr. Owen Owen, the late Member, has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds. If this should be so, it will afford a singular instance of a man pursuing the very conduct which he denounced in another. i n 1831, at Cockermouth, Sir James Graham inquired who represented that borough, and was answered from the crowd, Scarlett ;" and then proceeded to say—" Ay, and sorry I am to hear him named in that way, for he was once a valued friend. Yes, the ex- A ttorney-General--a recreant Whig—a follower of Fox—a nominee of Earl Fitzwilliam—a man honoured and respected until he began to wage war with the Press—he, I say, has been obliged to fiy from the indignation of the people, and seek refuge in Cocker mouth, under the wing of my Lord Lonsdale—he has crept into the House of Commons through the postern gate of which a Reverend Vicar, now on these hustings, keeps the key ; he has skulked from all expression of the public voice, and is to be found the representative of those burgage tenures for which the late Mr. Satterthwaite showed so much fond ness." Change Cockermouth f or P em b ro k e, and su b st i tute Taffy Owen for Lord Lonsdale, and here we have Sir James's own portrait complete, drawn by his own band 1 What a pity Lord Lonsdale has not now a rotten borough in his gift, for then, as the penny-a-line men say, the coincidence would have been complete as curious. We should like to know who keeps the key to the Pembroke " postern gate," that we might have the event duly recorded in song, to be sung at the next Con servative gathering.,.. Carlisle Journal. ELECTION COMMITTEES. (THIS DAY.) IPSWICH. The Committee met at the usual hour, and continued the inquiry into the objection of Robert Johnson's ♦otc on the ground of treating, &c. Wm. Juby was examined in corroboration of the evidence given yes. terday. He was asked some questions regarding a club at Ipswich, called the " Little Carlton Club," but the Committee held that they could net enter into the subject, it not bting directly connected with the vote under consideration. Mr. AUXTIN then, in an address of great ability and force, remarked upon the evidence, contending that by distinct Acts of Parliament and resolutions of the House of Commons, all kinds. of treating voters at elections were as illegal as bribery in its more ordinary sense. Mr. WRANGIIAM - Was speaking in defense of the vote, when, The ComsarrEn ordered the room to be cleared, and on the re. admission of the public, The CHAIRMAN said, the Committee had decided the vote to be good. Mr. C. PRILLIPPS then stated that to proceed upon the pe tition again=t Mr. Gibson, would after such a decicion be altogether fruitless, and it would therefore be abandoned, and the whole effirts of the petitioners would be directed towards maintain inz Mr. Tuffnell's seat. Mr. Kelly was now in a majority of one. The Liberals accordingly re-commenced their objections to Mr. Kelly's rotes, on the ground of pauperism. (To be concluded in a Second Edition.) BELFAST. The Committee met this morning at eleven o'clock. In consequence of the decision of the Committee yesterday, that the ♦otes given for Mr. Gibson after notice been served of his want of qualification, had been thrown away, Mr. Thessiger applied to bare the voters so circumstanced removed from the poll, and Al names were accordingly struck off. Mr. TPIESSIGER then proposed to have the name of Owen M`Cann struck off the registry, on the ground of insufficiency of ♦alue at the time of registration. This raised the question of re-opening the registry, PO often discussed before, and so variously decided by Parliamentary Committees. Mr, POLLOCK, for the sitting Member was heard at great length against the opening of the registry. The main point on which he relied was that the difference of the provisions between the English and the Iri h Reform Acts, and the different modes of registration in the two countries, plainly showed it was the intention of the Legislature that the Irish registration should be conclusive. BRISTOL. The Committee met this morning at eleven o'clock. Mr. TALBOT, one of the Counsel for the petitioners, said that having observed a disposition in the Committee to require evidence of a dif ferent class from that which he was able to call—taking intro considera tion also the technical difficulties which would be thrown in the way of proving agency, and the great expellee which would be incurred in going into a scrutiny—he begged to announce to the Committee that the peti tioners did not intend to proceed further in the prosesution of this peti tion. With the permission of the Committee, they therefore begged leave to retire. Mr, AUSTIN said that his Learned Friends, in intimating their in tention to retire, had exercised a wise discretion. The conduct of his Learned Friends was such as they invariably pursued, and he was fully satisfied with it. The only difficulty in the case arose from the attack which Mr. Thessiger had been instructed to make on the Charity Trus tees. Ile was now fully satisfied with that part of the case, which had been entirely removed by the evidence. If any part of that case had been left unexamined, he should not have consented to the withdrawal of the petition. That attack having totally and completely failed, nothing further remained for him (Mr. Austin) than to look to his client's case, and consent to the withdrawal of his Learned Friend's. The CII/11231AN said it might be satisfactory that he should state, having communicated with the members of the Committee, that they were unanimously of opinion that nothing had been proved which affected the conduct of the charity Trustees. The room was then cleared, and cn our re-admission, the Chairman and the Committee had decided that Mr. Berkely was duly elected a Member to serve the present Parliament for the City of Bristol. That the petition against his return was not frivolous or vexatious ; and that the opposition was not frivolous or vexatious. SLIGO. The Committee met this morning at eleven o'clock, and proceeded to investigate the qualification of Mr. Somers. Mr. DOWLING, who, with Mr. Harrison, appeared for Mr. Somers, put in several deeds and other documents to show the title to rent charges and fee-simple estates, which together made up the qua Ufication. Re called Mr. Rice, the agent of Mr. Somers to prove the value of that Gentleman's lands. Mr. Rice said that when he was first appointed to the agency, he caused a survey of the lands to be made, and in consequence of the new valuation, witness raised the rents of the Cappagh estate from 1201. to 3101. a year. The tenants did not like it at first, they'd rather go on in the ould way.—(A laugh.) The remainder of ✓ Mr. Rice's evidence went only to establish the value of the property. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. We have received Sydney Papers to the II th October. They state Ihat in consequence of the report which arrived by the Lord William Bentinck, of the death of his Majesty William IV., a meeting of the Executive Council was summoned, for the purpose of consulting whether it was adviseable to act upon such a report. The Council then drew up a report which was laid before his Excellency the Governor. VAN DIRMEN'S LAND.—We cannot perceive any alteration in the market prices. The sales of Wheat are rather dull. A project had been started for the creation of a Royal Exchange at Sydney. Cape of Good Hope Papers to 28th Dec. mention that an address had been sent to the Governor, expressive of the regret of the inhabitants at his intended resignation of the office of Governor. THE FUNDS. The British Funds, which were buoyant yesterday morning at 92-1 in the afternoon receded to 92i, and closed with a re-action. Consols opened this morning with an improvement at 92A 1, at present may bo quoted 92i for next tine 92 ;9S a now =for Account. Exchequer Bills, 5 5 57. India Bonds, 55 57. Bank Stock, 104/ si. India Stock, 2641 51. In the Foreign market little doing. Spunisli Active, 191 with Coupons. Portuguese, 27 28. Three per Cents., lBi. Brazilian, 73i 74. Dutch Two-and-a-Half, 53i y. Colombian, 27 14 I. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock ..... ..... 2 per Cent. i.c‘. - i. 7.3U 3a 3 per Cent. Can& 92 % /$i 3!4 per Cent. ..... ...... - Ditto Red.... New lt4 per Cent WO% ' . 4 li N• 2 IC 5 per Cent.... .... ..... ...,.... - s , int I,ntwAnnuitiesto expire India &oak fhtto Bon,ls - pm, South Sea Stock Old Anmutios - New Ditto 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751 - Exch. Bills, k '6 54 pm Ditto. 56 54 pm. Jan. 5 ' 1860 l5 346 Oct. In, itsl) Jan. 5, 1560 Jan. 5 IccY April 5: IS9!) Jan. 5,187 Q... PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS A,iitnan Bonds. Dittl Small Ditto Commercial Ditto Advcrtit?.(l — pm Bank Stock for Acc. - aint ind!:i Stock for Account Congols for Acconnt (39,%% THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK Peruvian Bonds Belgian Bonds ........... .......... atto ACCOLITIL . Brazilian Bonds IfiLto Account fia^nos Ayres Bonds Ditto Acccrint hillian Bonds.-- ........ Ditto Account — Portuguese Bonds Ditto Accou ..... I_Ntto New Bons' 274 atto Account Ditto, 3 per cent. lB Prussian Bonds _ _ Ditto Actnunt. C quinbian Bonds 9SK, Ditto Account ... 27% 7 C3linnbian Bonds, HQ; ...27% 6,7 Ditto Account - - in!sti Bonds ... Ditto Account ..... arreck Bone. 7 ............... Ditto Rend:, I'i2i Ditto Account Mexican Boruis, 5 per Ditto Account P)itto, 6 per cent. Ditto Acc0unt........'2N% 9 1 51capolittn ...... ..... ituiedan Bands, MI Ditto Account .. Ditto Metallic Spanish 131c,nds Ditto Account Ditto Bends,lB3l. . Ditto Account 19,4% French, 5 per cent.-- —f. -----3 per cent :3 per cent. Exchange Dutch, 24 per cent 1);tto Account Ditto, 5 per cent. IO2N X Ditto Account 102% PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. Birmingham and Derby Railway Company 2O 17 Commercial Blackwall Railway Company 2 6!1, 6 Dublin and Kilkenny Railway Company ...... - 2 3 . 8% Ell - ighton Railway Company London and Blackwall Railway Ditto Scrip 3 7 !4 6 7v 7 , *4nchester and Birmingham Railway .. 7 9% Northera and Eastern Railway Company South Durham Railway Company 25.; 0% General Steam Navigation Company HALF-PAST OlifE O'CLOCK On the news received from Canada this morning being made public, the British funds, which were rather on the advance, somewhat de clined, from 921 1 to 92 1 , as the news was not of the favourable nature previously expected. Consols are at present 82 1 , % for the Account, owing to a large purchase of 100,000 Reduced being effected. Exchequer Bills, 56 54 prem. ; India Bonds, 56 54 ; Bank Stock, 2041. In the Foreign Market, very little doing to the present time. Spa. nish Active, 19; with Coupons; Portuguese, 271 ; Three per Cents., ISi ; Brasil, 734 ; Colombian, 27 ; Mexican, 29 ; Dutch Two.and.a. Half per Cents., 53f. Little doing in the Share Markets ; they are not quite so go,xl as yesterday. TWO O'CLOCK. American papers just received at the North and South American Coffee-house, to the 28th ult. A Bill for the increase of the army has passed the Senate, to au effective force of bßeen thousand men. The accounts in the above papers are very contradictory in respect to the force of the Rebels at Bois Blanc. Some of the papers state it only to be about 500 men. THREE O'CLOCK. flonf•le Me Aeeeaut. 92Y II At a meeting of medical practitioners residing in the county of York, which was held at Bradford on Friday last, unanimous resolutions were adopted for petitioning Par liament to pass a Bill giving to the licensing bodies of the profession some summary way of punishing and putting down quacks and unliccnsed practitioners, through whose ignorance the lives of the people are continually put in danger.—Brad ford _Herald. IRISH IMPORTS SINCE OUR LAST. —Into the port of London-3,652 qrs. oats; 6,702 firkins butter; 5,110 bales bacon. Liverpool-7,362 qrs. wheat; 11,091 sacks flour ; 4,402 qrs. oats ; 7,166 loads oatmeal ; 295 qrs. beans; 14,800 firkins butter. Bristol-_47 barrels wheat ; 525 sacks flour; 3,643 barrels malting barley; 5,104 barrels 521 tons oats ; 12k tons oatmeal ; 349 firkins butter ; 103 bales bacon ; 1,627 pigs ; 11 horses ; 72 cows ; 52 t i erces b eef ; 27 tierces provisions. Gloucester-467 barrels wheat ; 110 sacks flour ; 1,402 barrels, 46i tons oats. MEASURING OF DISTANCES IN HOLLAND.— In the villages of Holland, among the peasants, distance is c omputed by the smoking of their pipes; and they tell you that from village to village is about a pipo and a half, two p ipes, half a pipe, " PAYING I'OR INFORMATION.—A man was asked the other day " If W a t er l oo B r id ge was a l os i ng con cern or not ?" "Go over it, and you will be toll'd," was the reply. It has been found that the pork is better from giving the apple sauce to the pig. A gentleman in Suffolk has lately fed a find pig upon apples which had been boiled with beans and meal, and which increased the size of the animal about ten pounds a week, and rendered the flesh of the most delicious flavour. The Clz arivari, in a dull tirade against England, says that it would give the country its heartiest malediction if it were not for the rosbiff and the flannel, which Great Britain has invented. Vast quantities of wild-fowl, natives of the Polar regions, have, during the late severe weather, visited the large lake at Fonthill. Among these have neon many flocks of wild swans, several of which, weighing 201bs, each, have been shot by the keepers. SECOND-HAND SILVER WATCHES. A variety of some dozens may be selected from, price Two Guineas each ; some rather more modern, Two and a Half Guineas each ; and an assortment quite equal to new, Three Guineas each. The whole have been carefully examined, and are warranted. T. COX SAVORY, Watchmaker, 47, Cornhill, London, Seven Doors from Gracechurch-street. N.B. Second-hand Watches purchased in exchange. BIRTHS. On the 14th inst., at West-end House, the lady Elizabeth Or(le , of a daughter. On the 12th inst., at Ludlow, the lady of A. J. Nightingale , Esq., Assistant-Commissary-General, of a son. On the 14th inst., at Woodlands, Semersetshire, the lady of Captain Maher, of a son. At the Parsonage, Southborough, Kent, the lady of the Rev- " 1 - W. Carr, of a daughter, still-born. On the 15th inst., the wife of Mrs. George Gillott, of the Strand, of a daughter. On the 16th inst., in Montagu-square, the lady of .L Roa ch Bovell, Esq., of a son. On the 16th inst., Mrs. T. H. Fry, of Great James-street , Bed ford-row, of a daughter. On the 17th inst., at Woburn-square, tho lady of R. Eglinton, Esq., of a daughter. On the 11th inst., at Dover, the lady of the Rev. F. Do Chair, Rector of East Langdon, Kent, of a son. MARRIED. On the 15th inst., at Kew Church, Surrey, George A. Afart il ' Esq., M.D., to Elizabeth Isabella, only child of the late Ma J ", Johnstone, of the Royal Marines, and grand-daughter of Colonel Walter Smith, who commanded the Royal Marines in the memor able Egyptian campaign. On the 14th inst., at the Friends' Meeting-house, at Winch more-hill, Mark Capper, of Ironmonger-lane Cheapside, to Ell en, the youngest daughter of th e l a t e S amue l 'Compton, Middlesex. of Enfield, DIED. On the 28th of December last, at his residence, Nassau Cottage' near the Niagara Falls, Upper Canada, caused by a fall from his horse, Captain Thomas J. Van Bartle, aged 47 years. On the 15th i ns t., P. M u ll e tt, E sq ., Guildford-street, Russell square, aged 60. On the 6th inst., at Pallinsburn House, Northumberland, George Adam Askew, Esq. At Ranelagh-terrace, on the 14th inst., Mrs. Margaret Griffiths, aged 79. On the 14th inst., at Camberwell-grove, Robert Samuel, the only son of Mr. S. Watson. On th 3 15th inst., in Worship-street, Finsbury, Mr. William Jennings, aged 86. On the 12th inst., Charles Colley Palmer, Esq., Justice of the Peace, eldest son of the Rev. C. Palmer, of Rahan, in the county of Kildare. On the 17th inst., William, son of E. T. Cardale, Esq., aged nine months. On tile 16th inst., aged 78, Anne, wile of Fred. Gibson, Esq., of Turnha.m-green. London: Printed and Published by 111URDO YOUNG, of O. 112, Strand, a t Th e S un O ffi ce, No. 11 0 , Strand, in the count) ? cf Middlesex....—Tuesday, February 20, 1838. BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.) TAILORS' GALLANTRY.—Edward Messenger, a master-tailor, Dean street, Soho, and John Robinson, his clerk, were charged by Elizabeth Chair, a married woman of respectable appearance, with Indecently as saulting her. It appeared, from the statement of the complainant, that a few minutes before eleven o'clock, last night, she was standing at the corner of Shire-lane, in company with another female, awaiting the return of her husband, who had gone a short distance, and the defendants turning round the corner, Robinson threw his arms round her neck, which she resisted, saying, " Begone, you monkey, if my husband was present you dare not insult me in that manner." He then turned back and said, " Your husband, indeed," and thrust his hand in the most impudent manner into her bosons. Her husband making his ap pearance at the moment she made a representation of the circumstances to him, and when he called Robinson to an account, he was struck by him. The other defendant then came up, and he also assaulted her husband, and during the scuffle she had her veil torn from her bonnet. The policemen shortly after arrived, but he refused to interfere as he did not witness the assault, and was endeavouring to prevent any more quarrelling, when he saw the defendant strike her husband, and he took them into custcdy. William Chair, a hatter, and the husband of the complainant stated, that when he came up to his wife, she related what had occurred, and on his calling Robinson to an account, he pulled ofrhis coat to flea, al , was assisted by his companion to assault him. In answer to the charge, Robinson! said, that he and his friend bad only just stepped out of a " Buss" in Fleet-street, on their arrival fount Bow, and while passing through Shire-lane, they were accosted by se veral loose f.miales, all of whom they successfully avoided. On turning the corner, the complainant was standing with another female, and they accosted her in a jocular manner, but not with the intention of offering any offence ; as to the assault, neither he nor his companion were the aggressor. Mr. Twyford told the defendants they should take the consequences of offending "any unprotected female even in the neighbourhood of hire-lane, and as it suited the convenience of the complainant the case should be treated summarily or sent to the sessions. Mr. Chair declared he had no wish to deal with the defendants se. verely, but the complainant said she was determined that persons who could be guilty of suck impudence should be punished with the utmost rigour of the law. The defendants were then put back, to await the arrival of a second Magistrate, but a Solicitor was instantly in attendance, who succeeded in having further proceedings prevented, by their consenting to pay a tine of 3/. for the offence. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) DEAL, Fan. 19.—Wind E.SE , strong breeze.—Arrived and pro ceeded for the River the Governor M'Lean, Morley, from Africa ; Highflyer, Newton, from Terceira; Jasper, Henderson, from Charente ; Adelaide, Guthrie, from India. Came down from the River, and sailed, Ocean, Paterson, for Constantinople; Mountaineer, M‘Gaskall, for Demerara; Louisa Baillie, Moorsom, for Demerara; Isabella, Kerr, for St. Michael's ; Gratitude, Mitchell, Trinidad; Trinidad, Beckett, for Trinidad; Iberia, steamer, Strachan, for Cadiz; Zuleika, Scott, for Constantinople; Lady Raffles, Biers, for India; H. M. ships Vestal and Penelope to the Westward. PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 19.—Wind E.SE., fine fresh breezes.—Arrrived the Admiral Tromp, Kirkhoven, from Batavia for Amsterdam—sailed Oct. 30. and from St. Helena, Dec. 28. On the I 1 th ult., in lat. 4.48, lon. 21.37, spoke the American schooner, Reformer, from Teneriffe, for Rio. On the 16th inst., in lat. 49.15, lon. 8.38., the French schooner, Calypso, for Amsterdam. Ida, Currie, from Palermo to New castle, sailed Jan. 20 ; left loading the Sophia, Pitt, for London, and the schooner Racer, for Liverpool; en the 16th inst. spoke the Dale Park, off Scilly. Sailed the Inglis, Routh, for Bombay and China; put back the Commerce, for Christiana; Gustav, Adolph, for Antwerp. LtvEaroot, Fan. 19.—Wind S.S.E. moderate, thick weather.—Ar rived the Chieftain, Rigby, from Bahia; Mayho, Messina and Dublin. Arrived off, Eve, from Monte Video ; Donald, Berbice, Amita, Laguira, Hark.aw•ay, Virginia, Thomson, from New Orleans. Sailed the Free dom, Cox, for Smyrna; Regalia, Cobb, for Havanna ; Tremont, Hall• for New Orleans. Put back the Mayflower, for Havre, with loss of sails and main boom, and boat stove, towed in by the Mountaineer (Steamer), from Swansea. R&MSOATE FEB. 19.—Arired the Blixton, Bohm, from Alexandria. DOVER, FEB. 19.—Arrived off; the Juliane, Elizabeth, Bohn, from Monte Video; Danac, Forster, from St. Thomas; Cybele, Applil4 from Charleston. SUNDERLAND, Fea. 14.—The Zephyr, Fox, from Archangel to Bristol, which put into this port 12th i ns t . , i s very l ea k y an d m ust dis c barge. PLY mourn, FEB. 18.—Wind E.S.E.—Arrived the Carshalton Park, Park, from London to Jamaica, with loss of one man, and figure-head much damned, having encountered severe weather. Fatmourn, FED. 18.—Wind S. to S.S.E., moderate breezes and fine. —Arrived the Bella Portena, Pyott, from Buenos Ayres, with 1) 00 stove and loss of bulwarks ; President, from Port-au-Prince. GLOSTER, FEB. 17 —The Vestal, from Port Madoc to this port, foun • dered off' Bideford Bay, 10th inst. , crew saved. BRISTOL, Pea. 17.—The Eliza, of Cork, Owens, parted in a hcavi gale, 15th inst., drove on shore at Great Castle Head, and it is feared will be totally lost; crew saved. SWISH, FEB. 15.—The Holland, Burne, of Sunderland, in attempt ing to enter this harbour, oth inst., was driven behind the South Pier, received considerahle damage, and it is feared will become a total wreck. Vessels Spoken With—The French brig Veloce, from Havre 24th Nov., in the River Plate, and Danish ship Maria, from Rio Janeiro, for Cowes; out 26 days on the 6th January, in lat. 5. 48. S. long., 33. 31 ' W., b.. the Bellona Portena. The John Stamp, Payne, from Bombay to Liverpool, was totally los t 17th inst., near Kilkeel, seven of the crew drowned. The Nymph, Eilbeek, from Wicklow to Lancaster, foundereJ 16th inst., near Whitehaven. The Groot, Lankum, from Liverpool to Amsterdam, was aban doned 17th inst., in the Channel, with loss of masts and five feet of water In the hold. The Antrim, M'Cracker, from Belfast to Liverpool, was driven on shore in Cloughy Bay, 16th inst. The Diana, of Dundee, is on shore near Margate. The Friends, from Gloster to Dublin, is totally wrecked, in chisweil Bay, crew saved. The Alexander, Robertson, from Liverpool, put into Kingston, dis. masted, bound to Alexandria. The Adelaide, Holman, of Cork, is wrecked near Milford. The Harriett and Ann, Morgan, of Llanelly, the Lucy, Cuff; the Diligence, Finah, are on shore near Milford. The Hebe, from Swansea, put into Milford, very leaky, part of the cargo thrown over, bound to Lisbon. SERIOUS ACCIDENT AT TIIE RESIDENCE Of Ma. EASTHOPE, M.P.—Last night, between 7 and 8 o'clock, the family of Mr. Easthope, residing on Hampstead-hea th, was thrown in a state of great consternation and alarm by a tremendous explosion being heard, which was found to proceed from the saddle-room, and shook the whole fabric to its founda tion. The apartment was found filled with smoke, the window b!own out, and Mr. Easthope's coachman and groom w ere discovered lying bleeding on the floor, insensible and in a dreadfully injured state, being both much scorched and bu rnt, and frightfully lacerated about the head, face, and hands. The right hand thumb of the groom was blown almost comple tel y off, and it is greatly feared that his eye-sight is cor : pletely destroyed. Surgical aid was directly procu red, but from the extreme severity of the injuries the unfortu nate men had sustained, their removal to the U n iversity Coll e g e Hospital was deemed expedient. It seems that the coach man and groom were sitting smoking in the Saddle-room, when a packet of gunpowder, that had incautiously been &lowed to remain on the table, by some means ignited. The Right Hon. Thomas Lefroy paired off last night with Mr. Currie on the third reading of the Parliamen tary Electors Bill. Mr. Blennerhasset paired off with Mr. Jephson on the same question. Mr. Dunlop and Mr. Christopher paired off last night on the third reading of the Parliamentary Electors and Freemen Bill. M. de Chwastoff, Russian Envoy, who arrived at Mivart's Hotel a few days since, has taken his departure with important despatches for the Hague, from whence he proceeds with speed to St. Petersburgh. This talented diplomatist, we understand, is the bearer of important des patches to the Court of St. Petersburgh from New York, and stayed only eighteen hours in that town. Julius Cmsar, says the Charivari, thought he had done nothing when something was left for him to do. Our Deputies, on the contrary, imagine they have done much. when they have done nothing at all. Future naturalists will no doubt class them amongst the oysters and other inert substances.